Table 2. Public school student membership, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: School year 2006–07

	Race/ethnicity¹
State or jurisdiction	Total students reported²	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Asian/Pacific Islander	Hispanic	Black, non-Hispanic	White, non-Hispanic
United States³	48,504,876	589,783	2,282,149	9,950,245	8,288,264	27,394,435

Alabama	741,441	5,944	7,904	23,363	265,896	438,334
Alaska	132,608	35,320	9,233	5,830	6,070	76,155
Arizona	1,065,082	59,715	28,024	437,048	57,169	483,126
Arkansas	476,409	3,276	7,106	35,903	108,257	321,867
California	6,116,143	48,309	714,432	3,027,217	477,597	1,848,588

Colorado	794,026	9,283	26,482	219,433	47,354	491,474
Connecticut	575,100	2,127	21,297	92,252	79,694	379,730
Delaware	122,254	442	3,623	11,930	40,380	65,879
District of Columbia	72,850	46	1,171	7,225	60,754	3,654
Florida	2,583,329	7,931	61,809	646,826	617,175	1,249,588

Georgia	1,584,905	2,341	46,672	149,947	621,401	764,544
Hawaii	180,728	1,098	131,860	8,155	4,262	35,353
Idaho	267,380	4,227	4,330	35,905	2,842	220,076
Illinois	2,071,836	4,424	80,675	408,302	419,860	1,158,575
Indiana	1,010,195	2,731	13,291	63,888	127,356	802,929

Iowa	483,122	2,859	9,554	29,959	25,749	415,001
Kansas	465,045	7,700	11,761	60,612	41,452	343,520
Kentucky	635,178	914	6,183	14,965	68,254	544,862
Louisiana	675,851	5,228	9,309	15,987	306,810	338,517
Maine	193,986	1,394	2,742	1,964	4,467	183,419

Maryland	851,640	3,379	46,003	70,997	324,500	406,761
Massachusetts	950,196	2,736	46,147	128,993	79,365	692,955
Michigan	1,698,471	15,945	41,359	76,985	343,937	1,220,245
Minnesota	840,565	17,654	49,276	48,269	76,073	649,293
Mississippi	495,026	953	4,091	8,357	251,369	230,256

Missouri	920,353	3,788	15,480	31,693	166,957	702,435
Montana	144,418	16,502	1,715	3,635	1,397	121,169
Nebraska	287,580	4,940	5,345	35,172	22,227	219,896
Nevada	423,184	6,778	32,146	149,722	46,777	187,761
New Hampshire	203,158	651	4,148	5,922	3,696	188,741

New Jersey	1,388,812	2,377	109,142	261,323	242,310	773,660
New Mexico	328,220	35,931	4,246	179,175	8,567	100,301
New York	2,781,785	13,914	199,592	572,430	546,918	1,448,931
North Carolina	1,399,361	20,731	32,042	134,420	408,189	803,979
North Dakota	96,670	8,355	959	1,732	1,729	83,895

Ohio	1,780,816	2,557	25,802	45,601	303,852	1,403,004
Oklahoma	639,391	123,160	11,670	60,634	69,053	374,874
Oregon	540,866	11,982	25,843	90,317	16,809	395,915
Pennsylvania	1,871,060	3,028	48,174	127,556	297,007	1,395,295
Rhode Island	151,612	1,035	4,666	27,238	13,321	105,352

South Carolina	703,119	2,396	9,727	32,268	279,739	378,989
South Dakota	121,158	12,894	1,223	2,525	2,110	102,406
Tennessee	978,368	1,890	14,585	42,944	243,011	675,938
Texas	4,599,509	15,837	150,222	2,129,393	664,249	1,639,808
Utah	523,586	7,949	16,220	69,025	7,107	423,285

Vermont	94,444	397	1,536	986	1,532	89,993
Virginia	1,193,330	3,905	64,278	98,686	319,004	707,457
Washington	1,006,878	26,649	84,897	144,064	57,058	694,210
West Virginia	281,939	317	1,836	2,353	14,296	263,137
Wisconsin	876,700	12,824	31,403	63,130	92,016	677,327
Wyoming	85,193	3,020	918	7,989	1,290	71,976

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁴	52,504	352	5,289	7,776	9,928	29,159
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁴	24,574	182	1,155	5,660	4,821	12,756
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	—	—	—	—
American Samoa⁵	16,427	0	16,427	0	0	0
Guam	—	—	—	—	—	—
Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas Islands	11,695	0	11,637	0	5	53
Puerto Rico⁵	544,138	0	0	544,138	0	0
U.S. Virgin Islands	16,284	34	24	2,515	13,502	209
— Not available.
¹ Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, Asian includes Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and American Indian
includes Alaska Native.
² Totals exclude students for whom race/ethnicity was not reported.
³ U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁴ DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependent
schools (domestic), respectively.
⁵ American Samoa and Puerto Rico report all students in a single racial/ethnic category.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2006–07, Version 1a.

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